SilverSurfer -- a compare/contrast review of recessions/depressions in the U.S. economy prior to the Great Depression versus since demonstrates precisely the opposite -- there are times when intervention is needed and appropriate, and works, has a very real positive effect (again, first item at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=64573038 ) -- hold to whatever 'haha I can't hear you with my head up my butt' opinion you like, that's the proven fact
and it was precisely the failure of the government to call the balls and strikes and enforce the laws, under dubya, that made possible and enabled, indeed encouraged, the invisible hand of the free market doing God's work's latest-delivered big bubble and crash, the worst since the likewise-delivered Great Depression -- big bubble and crash, over and over, being of course the normal way things went in your glory days of itsy-bitsy government and lotsa God's work before the Great Depression brought FDR and the Dems in complete control and the passage of federal and state securities and banking laws and the creation of federal and state regulatory agencies -- and also brought Keynes
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." from John Philpot Curran, Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790